Browse by Label: THE WIRE (UK)

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#244 June 2004
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 244

"All copies of this issue (UK and overseas, subscription copies and shop copies) will come complete with The Wire Tapper 11, a special 16 track CD that is the latest volume in the magazine's ongoing series of new music compilations. The track list includes new, rare or previously unreleased material by To Rococco Rot, Icarus, Juana Molina, Wibutee, Phillip Clemo, Albert Ayler, The Brotherhood of Breath, Matthew Dear, Jah Wobble, Arthur Russell, Henrik Rylander, Green Milk From the Planet Orange, Mountains, Slowblow, Un Caddie Renverse Dans L'Herbe, Poire_z with Phil Minton. On The Cover: Christian Fennesz. Features: Philip Corner, Eric Dolphy; The Primer: Clive Bell on wind instruments of the Orient; Invisible Jukebox: Vinicius Cantuaria; PG Six, Sixtoo, Henrik Rylander.

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#250 December 2004
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG/CD
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 250

"The December 2004 edition of The Wire will be the magazine's 250th issue. Over the course of those 250 issues, The Wire has developed from a quarterly fanzine covering avant garde jazz and modern composition into an award-winning and widely influential international monthly. This issue features a special 40 track double CD cover mount, The Wire Tapper 12, the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be mounted on the cover and given away free with every copy of the issue worldwide. Cover story: The 100 Greatest Riffs Of All Time. From the repetitive, bass driven trance music of North Africa (birthed thousands of years ago, appropriately, in Morocco's Rif Mountains), to the world famous symphonic themes of Beethoven, to the blues hook, jazz head and rock lick, the riff has been a primary tool for injecting music into the memory. As this is a Wire guide to the riff, and not another rock magazine regurgitation of rock 'n' roll clichés, the article will be ignoring the obvious stuff like 'You Really Got Me', 'Whole Lotta Love', 'Smoke On The Water', 'My Sharona', etc, etc. Instead, it will expand the notion of what a riff is or could be, covering all sorts of nagging repetitive aspects of music, from Techno and HipHop breaks to themes in jazz, avant rock, memorable funk motifs, riffs in 'world music' from Inuit songs to Fela Kuti, Krautrock, lower case and minimalist/systems music, etc, etc." Features: The new Finnish underground (starring Avarus, the Anaksimandros, Kemialliset Ystavat, Es, Kiila, Paivansade, Hetero Skeleton, Maniacs Dream and more), irr. app. (ext.), Greg Davis, John Peel RIP, My Cat is an Alien, Invisible Jukebox: Marshall Allen.

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#254 April 2005
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 254

On the cover: Mike Patton (the voice of unreason behind Fantomas and Ipecac). Features: The Primer: Grime - (Simon Reynolds investigates the bustling UK microculture of So Solid Crew, Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Kano and more); Elliott Sharp (The NY guitarist/composer discusses his cyberpunk take on avant rock, Improv and the blues), Antony and the Johnsons, Venetian Snares (the Canadian drill'n'jazz producer explains the links between breakcore and crack), Richard Barrett (militant composer/improvisor at odds with the niceness of the British music establishment), MIA (Maya Arulpragasam), C-Schulz, Invisible Jukebox: Ira Cohen (t poet and photographer on WS Burroughs, Angus MacLise, Cecil Taylor and more).

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#255 May 2005
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$7.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 255

On the cover: Electrelane (How Steve Albini, The Ex and a passing US military train helped shape their formidable rock noise). Features: Foetus (With a new album and a bunch of orchestral side projects, Jim Thirwell's career just changed gear); Kali Z Fasteau, Alex von Schlippenbach, Josephine Foster, Boris (Japan's heaviest power outfit); Annie Gosfield (the star-mapping soundworld of this innovative New York composer), Wojt3k Kucharczyk (the founder of Poland's Mik.Musik!. electronica label); Steve Beresford's Invisible Jukebox.

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#256 June 2005
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG/CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 256

On the cover: Laugh Till It Hurts -- "Received wisdom says humor and music don't mix, only everybody you speak to can name some exceptions to the rule. Add all those exceptions together and you have our special humor and music feature. this being The Wire, we are not concerned with comedy or novelty songs here; rather, we're interested in examples of humor and absurdity that challenge, wrongfoot or undermine habit-forming practices in composers, performers and listeners. We're talking Cage and Kagel Scores, Fluxus Pranks, Han Bennink Slapstick, John Zorn Duck Calls, The Vic Reeves/Steve Beresford/Evan Parker Axis, Noise Effects as disruptive devices, Robert Wyatt's songs, and so on. As with every aspect of The Wire, this article will search outside the box to uncover some of the most weird and wonderful moments of humor in alternative music." Artists featured on The Wire Tapper 13 covermount CD (included w/ all copies): "Fallt Tu m', Domino Pajo, Domino Juana Molina, Carpark Ariel Pink, Monotreme Recs, Picastro with Dwayne Sodahberk, Aesthetics Mandarin Movie, Cuneiform John Surman, Tigerbeat 6 Kid 606, Die Stadt Fover Hex, Ici d'ailleurs Matt Elliott, Horen Akinori, Strange Attractors Nick Castro, Jazzaway Crimetime orchestra, Resonant Port-Royal, Groenland Bombay 1, Bip Hop Deviationists, Kool arrow Alexander Hacke, Track & Field Currituck County." Features: The Books ("literate upstate New York duo"), Cooper-Moore ("veteran NYC freedom jazz multi-instrumentalist), Clemens Gadenstatter ("Austria's latest comic sensation), Invisible Jukebox: Mark Stewart ("the Bristolian godfather of punk-funk"), Tod Dockstader ("reclusive American tape music pioneer").

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#257 July 2005
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 257

On the cover: Jamie Lidell (How Super_Collider's former singer discovered a deeper voice to become the godson of soul.) Features: Keiji Haino's Invisible Jukebox; Magik Markers (Connecticut's knuckledusting free rock trio put up their dukes); Monolake (The Berlin techno duo reveal the magical equations behind their streamlined sound sculptures); Tony Bevan (British improv saxophonist electroacoustic foghorn fusion); Ornette Coleman (the veteran saxophonist reveals more harmolodic secrets in a rare interview); Animal Collective (The blissful sounds of the four fauns of new American music, plus Ariel Pink); The Primer: Lone Horn Improvisors. Limited stock.

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#260 October 2005
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 260

"On the cover: Boards of Canada (In a rare interview on home turf, the Scottish gnarly electronica duo share campfire stories with Rob Young). Features: Jarboe (The prolific ex-Swans singer tells Marc Masters about The Men Album in her life); Alexander Tucker (The UK guitarist and comic book artist clears up some foggy notions about his dark avant folk); Birchville Cat Motel (New Zealand feedback guitarist Campbell Neale discusses his Metal project Black Boned Angel); Invisible Jukebox: Warren Ellis (The Dirty Three/Bad Seeds); Elaine Radigue (The Parisian electronic composer discovers an appetite for collaboration with The Lappetites); New London silence (Clive Bell remaps the city with third generation improvisers Mark Wastell, Phil Durrant, Rhodri and Angharad Davies)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#261 November 2005
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 261

"On the cover: Remake Remodel -- a sequel to the state of song feature that appeared in The Wire's May 2005 issue. In a 12-page special, The Wire's crack writing squad picks 60 cover versions that rattle the state of song. Plus: writer/musician Alan Licht goes undercover to explore his motivations for versioning Moondog, Minutemen, Captain Beefheart and more. Features: Jackson and his Computer Band (Warp artist Jackson Fourgeaud explains the egomaniacal forces behind his disintegrated Techno); Mazen Kerbaj (The Beirut trumpeter explains to Julian Cowley how his music deals with the legacy of Lebanon's civil war); Oren Marshall (The London tuba player extends his instrument's reach with a range of astonishing devices); Invisible Jukebox: Steve Reich (The minimalist tussles with tracks by Charlie Parker, Charlemagne Palestine and more); Earth (The missing links between La Monte Young and Black Sabbath extend their drone into Country); Once Upon a Time in Shinjuku (In the second in our new series revisiting significant musical sites, Alan Cummings travels back to Tokyo's sleaziest district in the late 1960s, where Masayuki Takayanagi and Kaoru Abe laid the foundations of Japanese free music)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#262 December 2005
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG/CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 262

"On the cover: Lightning Bolt (Alan Licht visits the Rhode Island duo who are reconfiguring US Hardcore with their breakneck drum and bass thrash). Features: Tujiko Noriko (The Japanese electronic musician and film maker's naive charm belies a touch of steel); Kang Tae Hwan (The pioneering Korean sax improvisor recalls the tribulations of blowing free under martial law); Susanne Brokesch (Since moving to Brooklyn, the Austrian artist matches her electronica to the paintings of Paula Brook); Invisible Jukebox: Ray Russell; Vashti Bunyan (Rob Young meets the forgotten 60s pop star turned singer-songwriter now championed by the free folk generation); Ken Hyder (Will Montgomery follows the Scottish percussionist's quest for the link between Improv and shamanic trance); The Primer: Jamaican deejays (Brian Marley toasts the titans of talkover, including I-Roy, U-Roy, Big Youth, Dr Alimantado, Dillinger, Trinity and more.

All copies of the December issue will come complete with an exclusive free 16 track CD, The Wire Tapper 14. The Wire Tapper 14 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be given away free with every copy of the December issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks that together will span the spectrum of the kind of new, underground music that gets featured in the magazine each month, from electronic music, avant rock and new jazz, to dub, hiphop, traditional musics and beyond."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#264 February 2006
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 264

"On the cover: Edan (The Boston DJ/MC/producer trawls widely, from Old School hiphop to 60s freakbeat heroes). Features: Battles (David Stubbs skirmishes with a leftfield New York 'supergroup' slugging it out at the frontline of rock and electronics); Birgit Ulher (The self-taught Hamburg trumpeter and artist expands her instrument's lexicon of sputters); Sleeparchive (Philip Sherburne attempts to unravel the Berlin minimal Techno producer's complex web of identities); Invisible Jukebox: Steve Reid; Bardo Pond (Philadelphia's psychedelic freeform collective reveal the secrets of their sonic vortex); Derek Bailey (David Toop plus a host of admirers and fellow musicians pay tribute to the pioneering guitarist who died in December).

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#265 March 2006
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 265

"On the cover: Phill Niblock (At 72, the pioneering American 'loud music minimalist' and film maker is at the top of his game). Features: Wooden Wand (The sprawling US collective stitch together a family quilt of influences, from Kraut to misfit hillbilly); Tape (The in-house group of Sweden's Hapna label make electroacoustic Improv in the midnight hour); Keith Berry (This British digital composer treats found sounds to plant surreal seeds in listener's ears); Invisible Jukebox: The Bug; Mat Maneri (New York's 'microtonal jazz' violinist tells Philip Clark how moving out of his father's shadow took him to the edge.); Once Upon a Time in San Francisco (How Quicksilver Messenger Service and others tore up the late '60s Bay Area Ballroom scene)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#266 April 2006
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 266

"On the cover: Tom Verlaine (On the eve of his first new albums in 13 years, the reclusive Television guitarist allows Alan Licht a rare audience). Features: Mouthus (The elusive and prolific Brooklyn noise-rock duo pinned down by Marc Masters); The Knife (Louise Gray looks behind the many masks of the Swedish electro-prankster siblings); Ned Sublette (The writer and musician talks up his Cuban music book and his work with artist Lawrence Weiner); Invisible Jukebox: Burnt Friedman; Linder (Brian Dillon unpicks the secret history of a transgressive visual artist and musician, from punk to present); Spring Heel Jack (Keith Moliné charts the progress of John Coxon and Ashley Wales from '90s drum 'n' bass to noughties free Improv); Primer: The Fall (A user's guide to the Mancunian iconoclasts' intimidatingly vast discography)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#267 May 2006
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 267

"On the cover: AGF (Word processing in Berlin with polystylistic laptopper and digital 'poemproducer,' Antye Greie). Features: Scatter (The Glaswegian avant folk ensemble explain their methodical madness to Mia Clarke); Mattin (The shadowy Basque prankster on laptop abuse, sonic theory and provocative song); David Rothenberg (Phil England quizzes the writer and clarinettist on birdsong, jazz and the sounds of nature); Invisible Jukebox: William Parker; Scott Walker (In a revealing interview, the enigmatic auteur decodes the secrets of his first new album in a decade); Conrad Schnitzler (The maverick Berliner left Kluster and Tangerine Dream to pioneer the industrial use of electronics); Ryoji Ikeda (David Toop enters the Dataplex to discuss silence and control with the Japanese composer and sound artist)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#268 June 2006
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG/CD
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 268

w/ free 20 track CD! "The Wire Tapper 15 is the latest volume in the Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be given away free with every copy of the June issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks that together will span the spectrum of the kind of underground music that gets featured in the magazine each month, from electronic music, avant rock and new jazz, to dub, hiphop, traditional musics and beyond. On the cover: Sonic Youth (The veteran New York rockers tell Nick Cain about the raw power of Rather Ripped, and give an update on their myriad activities, past, present and future). Features: Terry Day (The former People Band drummer talks Julian Cowley through his interrupted Improv history); Harry Rag (From Düsseldorf punk to pastoral futurism via Wim Wenders and Can with the SYPH vocalist); Jutta Koether (Lina Dzuverovic unravels the personae and multiple media activities of the New York artist and painter); Invisible Jukebox: Rob Mazurek; Yellow Swans (The prolific Portland, Oregon noise duo mull over method, motivation and manifestoes for a better world); Ekkehard Ehlers (The Berlin conceptualist reconfigures blues, jazz and African musics in an attempt to reconnect dead voices across continents); The Primer: John Fahey (David Keenan picks his way through a user's guide to the phantasmagorical folk blues of the original American Primitive)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#269 July 2006
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 269

On the cover: Current 93 (David Tibet explains how his music is shaped by his apocalyptic religious visions and nightmares of black ships). Features: Boxcutter (Barry Lynn talks beats, horror movies and Pharoah Sanders with Chris Sharp); FM3 (The Chinese electronica duo have gone into overdrive to meet the demand for their Buddha Machine); Cross Platform: Annea Lockwood (Harnessing sound as pure energy, the Antipodean sound artist maps rivers as living entities); Invisible Jukebox: Kode9; Once Upon a Time in Berlin (In the early '80s, while their noisier compatriots cultivated a nihilistic culture that defined West Berlin, the constantly mutating Die Tödliche Doris best embodied its unstable identity)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#270 August 2006
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 270

"On the cover: Smegma (Three decades of free rock mayhem hasn't dimmed the enthusiasm of the LA freakout troupe who have worked with Wild Man Fischer, Richard Meltzer, Merzbow and Wolf Eyes). Features: Philip Samartzis (Andy Hamilton meets the electronic spatializer who has become a figurehead for Australian New Music); Leopard Leg (How this Brighton based female shamanic free rock collective went wild in the country); John Wiese (The prolific Californian noise generator is on a mission to find the frequencies that will blow your mind); Cross Platform: Brian Eno (The Ambient maestro introduces his latest venture into generative video; a painting cycle that would take hundreds of lifetimes to watch); Invisible Jukebox: Biosphere; Die Trip Computer Die (Guerrilla sampling duo Lepke B and Xentos 'Fray' Bentos have been electrocuting the UK post-punk underground since the late 70s); Akio Suzuki & John Butcher (On a recent odyssey round the resonant spaces and sacred stones of Orkney, the Japanese sound artist and the UK improvisor were affected by the spirit of place); Dabrye (Michigan producer Tadd Mullinix's spectral, shapeshifting take on hiphop has made him new friends, including Beans, MF Doom and Vast Aire)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#271 September 2006
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 271

On the cover: Kool Keith (Hiphop's premier streetwise satirist and scatologist, Dr Octagon, is back - just one of the former Ultramagnetic MC's raft of comeback projects in 2006). Features: Excepter (Marc Masters talk contrarian circuits with the style-mashing New York Techno/rock quartet); Jason Lescalleet (This New England Improv sound manipulator's compositions capture the sound of decay); Digital Mystikz (Chris Sharp blags some rare facetime with DMZ's Mala and Coki, South London's dubstep dreamers); Cross Platform: Ira Cohen (Underground film maker, poet, photographer and multimedia shaman Ira Cohen has finally released his 1968 masterpiece on DVD; Invisible Jukebox: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge; Charalambides (Nick Cain traces the 15 year development of Christina and Tom Carter's stream of cathartic song and crepuscular suburban blues); Merce Cunningham (Since his groundbreaking choreography with John Cage, Merce Cunningham's long career has always married New Music with motion); The Primer: AMM (A user's guide to the recordings of a British free music institution, including solo projects by Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury and more)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#272 October 2006
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WIRE 272

"On the cover: David Thomas/Pere Ubu (After 14 albums and several line-up changes, David Thomas' group continue to map out America's ghost towns and lost highways.) Features: COH (Russian Raster-Noton artist Ivan Pavlov talks emotional electronics with Chris Sharp); Little Annie (The New York singer tells Phil England about her latest transmogrification from punk priestess to cabaret chanteuse); James Blackshaw (Sam Davies drifts on the young London fingerpicking guitarist's cloud of unknowing); Cross Platform: Jayne Parker (Artist Jayne Parker's extraordinary films explore the physicality of musicianship); Invisible Jukebox: Chris Corsano; Rafael Toral (The Portuguese composer has jettisoned his electric guitar on the first stage of an ambitious, long-haul electronic Space Program.); Once Upon a Time in Melbourne (Jon Dale investigates the meta-musical enclave of the Australian city's late 70s post-punk scene, including Essendon Airport, Laughing Hands and Warren Burt)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#276 Febuary 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 276

"Seismic performances: did the earth move for you? Our crack writing squad dredge the collective cultural memory to recall some of the most dynamic, ground-breaking or just plain awesome concerts, gigs and live music performances of all time; events that changed the way we see and hear things; or that reached a peak of emotional/physical intensity; or that simply provided the soundtrack/climax to a great night out. From minimalist endurance tests to transgressive audience baiting, our writers were there, saw it, and have something to say about it. Features: Infinite Livez (London's hiphop's Cockney rebel describes his headlong collisions with Swiss electronica duo Stade); Richard Skelton (The musician behind Harlassen, A Broken Consort and Carousell on the life-affirming properties of art); Cross Platform: Shinro Ohtake (The Japanese artist and occasional Puzzle Punk halts his ceaseless activities for long enough to talk to Chris Sharp); Invisible Jukebox: Bert Jansch; The Primer: Adrian Sherwood (David Stubbs provides a user's guide to 30 years of the producer's innovative 'per-versions' for On-U Sound and beyond, from Creation Rebel and Lee Perry to Tackhead)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#277 March 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 277

"On The Cover: Grinderman (Nick Cave's revitalized cowboy outfit draws its rock power from improvisation, Warren Ellis' violin loops and the spirit of ecstatic jazz); Features: Paul Burwell (David Toop celebrates the life of the Bow Gamelan founder, percussionist and instrument builder, who died last month); Polly Shang Kuan Band (Karen Constance tells Keith Moliné how her female noise unit sits beside her work in Blood Stereo, Ceylon Mange and more); Robert Horton (The San Francisco underground veteran has just unleashed a deluge of discs and collaborations); Cross Platform: Ray Lee; Invisible Jukebox: Rachid Taha; Once Upon a Time in Cairo (In 1944, the world's first piece of electronic music was composed in the Egyptian capital. Rob Young tells the amazing story of its creator); Peter Hammill (Since 1969, Britain's most singular songwriter has been unflinchingly addressing the Seven Ages of Man, both with and without Van Der Graaf Generator). Epiphanies: Peter Rehberg on Cabaret Voltaire."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#278 April 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 278

"On The Cover: Terry Riley (The pioneer of 1960s American minimalism reveals the range of his interests, from his Irish and Italian roots to Indian ragas and space music for NASA.); Features: Aufgehoben (The English free rock unit disclose the studio processes behind their improvised sonic barrage); Islaja (The songs of Finnish mult-instrumentalist Merja Kokkonen are imbued with spiritual longing); Michio Kurihara (Alan Cummings talks to the Tokyo psychedelic underground's most in-demand guitarist about his first solo album); Cross Platform: Hal Rammel (The American instrument builder's inventions reflect his deep interest in comic utopias and surrealism); Invisible Jukebox: The Dead C; Maja Ratkje (The Norwegian singer moves freely between noise, electronics and Improv with her solo projects and as a member of SPUNK and Fe-Mail); Eyeless In Gaza (With his Industrial pop/folk duo and projects with Mick Harris, Max Eastley and Lol Coxhill, Martyn Bates has ploughed a deep, dark furrow through English roots music); Epiphanies: A booty of pirated mixtapes opens a window on the world of dancehall and bashment reggae for Dave Stelfox."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#279 May 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG/CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 279

Includes The Wire Tapper 17 free CD compilation. "On The Cover: Von Südenfed (Mark E. Smith and Mouse On Mars' new project is not so much a collaboration as a shotgun wedding marrying digital mayhem with cantankerous inventions); Features: Strategy (Community Library label runner Paul Dickow details his sonic smear campaign); Sylvie Courvoisier (The Swiss pianist discusses improvising with the cream of downtown New York's crop); Carlos Giffoni (The No Fun Festival founder tells Marc Masters about his endless quest for the perfect noise); Cross Platform: Derek Jarman; Invisible Jukebox: Rhys Chatham; Evan Parker (The saxophonist tells Phillip Clark about his enduring search for new forms via his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and Spring Heel Jack, and explains why he and Derek Bailey had to split); The Primer: Dubstep (Derek Walmsley provides a user's guide to the sub-bass pressure of the UK's latest dancefloor mutation, with Burial, Kode9, Loefah, Digital Mystikz, DJ Hatcha and more. The Wire Tapper 17 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD, which has been compiled by Andy Tait and Shane Woolman and is packaged in a gatefold flexiwallet with artwork by The Wire's art director James Goggin, will be given away free with every copy of the May issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks by Fred Anderson & Harrison Bankhead, Von Südenfed, A Hawk & A Hacksaw and the Hun Hangar Ensemble, Throbbing Gristle, Ken Ikeda, Fridge, Jack Rose & Glenn Jones, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, and more."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#280 June 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 280

"On The Cover: Wiley (Grime's self-appointed Eskimo king invites Derek Walmsley into his Roll Deep Studio to explain how his blizzard of beats and rhymes gathers momentum in East London's streets); Features: Zavoloka (The Ukrainian artist tunes her electronics to the Earth spirits she hears in her native folk culture); Jozef van Wissem (The improvising Dutch lutenist has worked with Tetuzi Akiyama, Gary Lucas and more); Tomas Korber (Call it anything but electroacoustic Improv (EAI), insists Zurich's guitar/electronics manipulator); Cross Platform: Modified Toy Orchestra Invisible Jukebox: Neil Campbell; The Sea and Cake (Alan Licht hears how the painterly activities of Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt and Eric Claridge feed into the Chicago quartet's modest, sophisticated pop; Kassin + Moreno + Domenico (Boasting family links with a Tropicalia giant, Rio's eclectic avant bossa trio are on a virtuoso mission to perfect the physics of funk)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#281 July 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 281

"On The Cover: Throbbing Gristle (The four 'wreckers of civilization' return with their first new material since breaking up in 1981. David Stubbs finds out how their uncompromising stance has matured); Features: Skull Disco (Dave Stelfox tunes into the supple dubstep riddims of Shackleton and Appleblim); Daniel AIU Higgs (The ex-Lungfish man embroiders his shamanistic drones with folk, blues and Norse legends); Cross Platform: Mathieu Briand (The inclusive ethos of 90s rave informs the public access installations of this French artist); Invisible Jukebox: Peter Rehberg; Keijo (The veteran Finnish artesan retrieves inspiration for his holistic improvisations from a Borgesian parallel universe); Robin Williamson (A rare interview with the onetime Incredible String Band member, keeping the fluid Celtic tradition alive with a visionary series for the ECM label)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#282 August 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 282

"On The Cover: Ricardo Villalobos (The red-eyed Chilean DJ and techno producer has become the toast of Berlin's minimal scene, with four-hour sets and disorientating beatdowns); Features: Axolotl (Nick Cain books a seat in the memory theatre for Karl Bauer's delirious electric violin drones); Matthew Dear (As False, Jabberjaw and Audion, the US electronica producer toggles between pop and rougher textures); Cross Platform: Laurie Anderson (The multimedia maven rails against American foreign policy in her new Homeland performance); Invisible Jukebox: Jonathan Harvey; Whitehouse (It's for your own good, say extreme power electronics artists William Bennett and Philip Best, discussing their reputation as arch-transgressors of public taste); The Primer: British Psychedelic Folk (A user's map of the misty lanes of Albion's folk rock, including Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span, Pentangle, John Martyn, Mellow Candle, Comus, The Wicker Man and more)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#283 September 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 283

"On The Cover: PJ Harvey (Moving back to her homeland Dorset's chalky soil prompted alt rock's 50 Foot Queenie to recast her death-rattle songs as skeletal piano dirges); Features: Trim (UK Grime's ailing condition is being nursed back to health with Soulfood from this ex-Roll Deep MC); Lost In Hildurness (David Stubbs goes deep in the wood with the Icelandic cellist who has worked with Múm, Pan Sonic and Throbbing Gristle); Starving Weirdos (The northern Californian freeform soundscaping duo are rad, bad and dangerous to know, says Keith Moliné); Cross Platform: Daft Punk (Anne Hilde Neset talks to Thomas Bangalter about the French Techno duo's new cyborg road movie, Electroma); Invisible Jukebox: Sir Richard Bishop; Charlotte Moorman (Brian Morton commemorates the cellist who ritually adorned herself with TV sets, covered herself in chocolate, or performed naked works by Nam June Paik and more); Oren Ambarchi (The Australian guitarist swings like a pendulum between textural Improv, collaborations with Keith Rowe and Sunn O))) and unashamed pop songwriting)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#284 October 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 284

"The Wire Tapper 18 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman and Lisa Blanning and is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with artwork by The Wire's art director James Goggin, will be given away free with every copy of the October issue worldwide and will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks by Automated Acoustics, Babils, Cath & Phil Tyler, Damon & Naomi, Dimension X, Goodiepal, hamayôko, Heribert Friedl, Hulk, Icarus, John Luther Adams, Luciano Cilio, Modified Toy Orchestra, Mordant Music, Strings Of Consciousness, Tarentel, The Ex & Getatchew Mekuria & Guests, The Focus Group, The Fun Years, and more. In the issue: on the cover: Robert Wyatt (In a revealing interview, the garrulous singer and his wife Alfreda Benge discuss the troubled backdrop to his latest album, Comicopera). Features: Shape Of Broad Minds (Nick Sylvester hears about psychedelic hiphop from Philadelphia's Jneiro Janel, the fresh prince of Viberia); Ute Wassermann (The German Improv vocalist pushes her body to extreme limits to generate multiphonic ululations); Walter & Sabrina (Keith Moliné enters the sleazy, insidious world of the London nihilist rock duo); Cross Platform: Camille Norment; Invisible Jukebox: Han Bennink; Oxbow (The all-singing, all-stripping hardcore heavyweights are the music world's answer to Fight Club. Singer/slugger Eugene Robinson breaks the only rule to Phil Freeman); Once Upon A Time in Bristol (Out of St. Paul's claustrophobic mix of reggae, post-punk and hiphop, Smith & Mighty, The Wild Bunch and more spun a protective web of maternal bass)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#285 November 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 285

"On The Cover: Underground Resistance (The elusive Detroit Techno guerrilla cell are superheroes of the Motor City, waging electronic warfare on Capital. Founder 'Mad' Mike Banks explains campaign strategy to Mark Fisher). Features: Flying Lotus (Dave Stelfox meets California's one-man cinematic orchestra, freak-hop rejuvenator and grand-nephew of Alice Coltrane); David Watson (The well travelled improvisor brings the skirl of the bagpipes to New York's downtown scene); Daniel Menche (The Portland electronic extremist tells Nick Cain how he's knocking himself out to tame the wild beast of noise); Cross Platform: Juneau/Projects (Britain's woodcraft folk artists make hand carved guitars, drowning Walkmans and sonic skateboards); Invisible Jukebox: JG Thirlwell; Russell Haswell (A catalytic presence in British art and computer music for over a decade signs to Warner Classics for his latest act of digital decimation with Florian Hecker); Loren Connors (How Brooklyn's guitar transcendentalist spun heavenly harmonies from out of the squalor of '70s and '80s urban bohemia)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#286 December 2007
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 286

"On The Cover: Pram (Keith Moliné enters the old dark house of the Birmingham sextet to see how their obsessions with late night TV and East European cartoons animate their exotic experimental pop). Features: Bruno Pronsato (How a former rock drummer transformed himself into an idiosyncratic house and techno producer); Lionel Marchetti (Dan Warburton speaks to the French composer whose cinema for the ears has reinvigorated musique concrčte); Amir ElSaffar (The U.S. based Iraqi santoor/trumpeter mixes blues and Arabic music in defiance of the occupation); Cross Platform: David Ellis (Anne Hilde Neset meets the Southern U.S. artists who sends rhythms rippling through 'drum paintings' and trash piles); Invisible Jukebox: Michael Gira; Burial (On the eve of the release of his second album, the dubstep producer grants Mark Fisher a rare face-to-face interview to discuss his sonic mythographies of South London); Roxy Music (Author Michael Bracewell picks up where his Remake/Remodel book leaves off, to re-examine early Roxy Music's still thrilling crosswirings of pop, art and avant garde methods); The Primer: Harry Partch (Brian Marley follows the hobo trails of the 20th century American composer and instrument builder to piece together a users' guide to his microtonal compositions on CD and DVD)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#288 February 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 288

"On The Cover: Vladislav Delay (Whether as Luomo, Uusitalo or Delay, Finnish electronica producer Sasu Ripatti has always avoided slipping into generic blueprints). Features: Wooden Shjips (The San Francisco fuzz quartet conjure transcendent incantations from traditional tools); Warrior Queen (How MC Annette Henry's uncensored stream of Jamaican patois is enlivening the dubstep scene); Cath & Phil Tyler (The twining harmonies of this husband and wife duo recall the heyday of English pastoral folk song); Cross Platform: What's opera.doc? (La Fura Dels Baus' post-industrial Wagner Ring cycle and Hideaki Takahashi's 'media opera' update the medium for the digital age); Invisible Jukebox: George E. Lewis; Hot Chip (The London quintet hatch a witty hybrid of urban electronic musics, taking in everything from minimal techno to Puerto Rican reggaeton); Sightings (The New York avant power trio explain to Marc Masters how their customary clouds of distortion and overdrive were parted by new producer Andrew WK)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#289 March 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 289

"On the cover: John Butcher (This key player in the second wave of British Improv reinvents the saxophone via digital transformation, acoustic science and a heightened sense of space). Features: Baby Dee (Clive Bell meets the transgender street performer whose eccentric songs find favour with David Tibet and Antony); Brendan Murray (The Boston composer describes a musical commonwealth via delicately sculpted electronic toneworks); Valet (Former Jackie-O Motherfucker member Honey Owens talks shamanic psychic exploration with David Stubbs); Cross-Platform: Jed Speare (Working field and documentary recordings into socially resonant performance works, this unsung composer is a pioneer of multimedia presentation); Invisible Jukebox: Andrew WK; Autechre (Sean Booth and Rob Brown reveal the intuitive processes and magical maths behind their latest Warp album, Quaristice); Michael Hurley (Byron Coley plots the wanderings of America's neu-volk bohemian, from Greenwich Village and Folkways to The Holy Modal Rounders, cartoon wolves and Armchair Boogie)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#290 April 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 290

"All copies of this issue will come complete with an exclusive free CD stuck to the cover: The Wire Tapper 19, a special 10th anniversary edition of our acclaimed series of new music compilations. The Wire Tapper 19 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations, the first volume of which was issued 10 years ago with The Wire's April 1998 issue. As with previous volumes, The Wire Tapper 19, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman, Lisa Blanning and Andy Tait, will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider musics covered in the magazine. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with artwork by The Wire's art director Ben Weaver, the CD will be given away free with every copy of the April issue worldwide. Artists include: Our Sleepless Forest, Snorkel, Nico Muhly, G.F. Fitz-Gerald & Lol Coxhill, X.A. Cute (feat. Mike Ladd), Daniel Figgis via Somadrone, Fluorescent Grey, Kaffe Matthews, Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkilä, Talvin Singh, Illusion Of Safety, The Master Musicians Of Hop-Frog, Phog Masheeen, Setsubun Bean Unit, Pink Skull, LowDynamicOrchestra with Stefano Scodanibbio, Lars Akerlund, Tangtype, Yellow6, Never Enough Hop. On the cover: Gudrun Gut (From Malaria!, Mania D and Neubauten to Ocean Club radio and Monika Enterprise, this 'dilettante' has genially hosted Berlin's new music scene for 30 years. Features: Benga (Derek Walmsley meets dubstep's prince of darkness); Religious Knives (Bruce Russell on dervish surgery in New York); Robert Hood (Detroit Technocrat lights out for the South); Cross Platform: Cory Arcangel (With homage to Glenn Gould and hacked video games, this visual artist converts geekiness into media savvy); Invisible Jukebox: Michael Rother; Henry Grimes (Lost to the world for 30 years, the free jazz bassist has belatedly restarted his magnificent career in New York); J Dilla (Two years after his tragically early death, Dave Stelfox pays tribute to the celebrated hip-hop producer's ruff drafts, decaying textures and influential lo-fi aesthetics); The Primer: Henry Cow (A user's guide to the recordings of this nomadic, utopian outfit, including the extended Rock In Opposition family of Slapp Happy, The Work, Art Bears and more."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#291 May 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 291

"On the cover: Wolfgang Voigt (With the release of his classic, controversial GAS series, the Kompakt/Profan/Studio 1 founder and Cologne minimal architect talks psychedelic forestry with Rob Young). Features: Jon Hassell (A new orchestral project finds the Fourth World trumpeter preaching to the choir); Dexplicit (Derek Walmsly takes a bass line mainline to the North London suburb); Frans de Waard (Noise of many stripes with the Dutch protagonist of Goem, Freiband, Zebra and more); Cross-Platform: AV Festival (Andy Hamilton encounters Radiophonia, indeterminacy and vinyl-killers at North East England's multidisciplinary meltdown); Invisible Jukebox: Carl Craig; Dean Roberts (From White Winged Moth to Autistic Daughters, the nomadic New Zealand avantist has left a trail of ghostly post-rock and dislocated lyrical archetypes); Max Eastley (Delicate automata, wind-blown harps, ear-shattering Arc improvisations: welcome to the dynamic world of England's foremost environmental sound sculptor); Kan Mikami (Floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, Japan's acid folk veteran punches above his weight with Keiji Haino, Jojo Hiroshige, Motoharu Yoshizawa and more."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#292 June 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 292

"On the cover: Evangelista (Since covering Willie Nelson's 'Red Headed Stranger,' Carla Bozulich has been shunting alt country deeper into hardcore improv territory with her new group). Features: Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt tells Chris Sharp why 3" CD-Rs are the perfect medium for his electronic streams of consciousness); Dylan van der Schyff (Vancouver's busiest drummer talks about his work with John Butcher, pianist Peggy Lee and more); Cross Platform: Anat Ben-David (Chicks On Speed's Israeli recruit interrogates pop and politics in her performance art piece, Popaganda); Invisible Jukebox: The RZA; Yoshi Wada (Inspired by La Monte Young and Pandit Pran Nath, the Japanese Fluxus artist explores the 'sympathetic resonances' of his homemade bagpipes and horns); People Like Us (Adopting the motto 'all things avant retard,' Vicki Bennett creates witty audio cut-ups and collages that slyly subvert heavily mediated images of Britain); Nihilist Spasm Band (The likes of Joe McPhee, Voice Crack and Jojo Hiroshige have all made the pilgrimage to London, Ontario to attend the Canadian noise veterans' No Music nights)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#293 July 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 293

"On the cover: Mark Stewart (The former Pop Group godfather talks up his new outernationalist album and warns against being absorbed into a consumerist 'flatpack reality'). Features: Rustie (This Scottish wunderkind's bass-heavy 'aquacrunk' is the perfect beat for Glasgow's busy party scene); Franz Hautzinger (Why the Austrian trumpeter rejected Reductionism in favor of more eclectic, promiscuous fusions); Cross Platform: Materials Library (Joanne Lee meets Zoe Laughlin, curator of a London research project into the sound of everyday stuff); Invisible Jukebox: .snd; The Necks (Australian improvising trio Chris Abrahams, Tony Buck and Lloyd Swanton explain how their weightless, long-haul explorations achieve lift-off); Bill Dixon (The trumpeter has always patrolled the borders of tonality, from his 60s work with Archie Shepp and Cecil Taylor to his current, monumental Darfur)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#294 August 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 294

"On the cover: Tricky (Knowle West council estates, strong women and Jesus Christ: Bristol's self-described 'Mr Darkness' explains his return to form to Mark Fisher). Features: Sick Llama/Fag Tapes (As curator of the Fag Tapes label, Heath Moreland is a crucial force in Michigan's noise scene); Reiko Kudo (The nomadic Maher Shalal Hash Baz founder conceals toxic thorns within her floral musical haikus); Asva (Former Burning Witch/Sunn O))) member Stuart Dahlquist's new project blends Doom with drone); Cross Platform: Atsuhiro Ito (Vicente Gutierrez meets Tokyo's inventor of the optron, harnessing the sonic power of fluorescent light); Invisible Jukebox: Joe McPhee; Michel Chion (The Parisian musique concrete composer and author ravishes the 'floating ear' with powerful text settings and cinematic sensibility); The Primer: Digital Dancehall (A user's guide to Jamaica's digital revolution, with deejaying and minimal riddims from Wayne Smith, King Jammy, King Tubby, Ninjaman, Shabba Ranks and more)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#295 September 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 295

"On the cover: Ultra-red (Mark Fisher talks experimental music and radical politics with the multinational and audio activists). Features: Dusk + Blackdown (The London dubstep duo bring documentary realism to their sonic remapping of the city); Aleks Kolkowski (Clive Bell gets horny over the collagist/broadcaster's collection of gramophones, Stroh fiddles and wax cylinders); Cross Platform: Allora & Calzadilla (The Puerto Rican pair avenge Hitler's attack on art with a Cageian take on his favorite music); Invisible Jukebox: Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair; Ghédalia Tazartčs (Nick Cain meets a Parisian eccentric whose ethnographic forgeries conjure parallel worlds); Trevor Watts (The British improv pioneer explains to Julian Cowley why funk and freedom go together)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#296 October 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 296

"All copies of the October issue will come complete with an exclusive free CD stuck to the cover, The Wire Tapper 20, the latest volume in our acclaimed series of new music compilations. The Wire Tapper 20 is the latest volume in The Wire's ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. As with previous volumes, The Wire Tapper 20, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman, Lisa Blanning and Andy Tait, will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider music covered in the zine. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve designed by The Wire's art director Ben Weaver, the CD will be given away free with every copy of the October issue worldwide. Artists include Zavoloka, Crackle, Formication, Paavoharji, oRSo, A_dontigny, RJ Valeo, rarescale, Mike Osborne, Random Touch, Punck, Grails, micronormous, Pantaleimon, Lothar Ohlmeier/Isambard Khroustaliov, Tertium Quid, MoHa!, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, Wounded Knee.

On the cover: Richie Hawtin (From Detroit to Berlin, from Plus 8 to Minus, the former Plastikman's life and music remain in constant flux). Features: Runhild Gammelsaeter (Norway's black metal boffin tells Chris Sharp she isn't about to give up the day job); Lucky Dragons (Lisa Blanning on the L.A. collective who combine technology, eco-consciousness and textiles); Ingrid Laubrock (The F-IRE Collective saxophonist and Sleepthief leader talks a good game with Mike Barnes; Global Ear: Helsinki (Derek Walmsley reports on the rise of skweee's irreverent, downtempo beats; Cross Platform: Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Owen Hatherley hears the sound of marching feet on London's streets); Rules Of Engagement (Can artworld recreations of radical performances do justice to anarchic spirits?); Invisible Jukebox: Makoto Kawabata; Benge (The latest project by this London musician celebrates two decades of analogue synthesis); The Primer: The Alternative Neil Young (A user's guide to the roads less traveled in the long career of Canada's finest guitar vet)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#297 November 2008
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 297

"On the cover: Unofficial Channels: A Tour of Music's Unauthorised Domains, from Bootlegs to Blogs and Beyond. In the latest in our popular series of 'composite' cover features, The Wire's team of writers and critics takes a look at the myriad unofficial and alternative ways music gets out into the world, including bootlegs, blogs, CD-Rs, cassette networks, audience tapes, online DJ sets, hip-hop battle tapes, studio outtakes, pirate radio mixes and more. Features: Gino Robair (The San Francisco improvising percussionist tells Julian Cowley about his energized surfaces); Yo! Majesty (Matt Gorney on a flamboyant Florida rap duo with a penchant for royal bust-ups); Tristan Perich (Exploring the foundations of digital sound, from Loud Objects to 1-bit music); Global Ear: Guča: (Robert Rigney reports from smalltown Serbia's bustling brass band blowout); Cross Platform: Ken Jacobs (Alan Licht rips up the presidential suite with the avant garde film maker); Invisible Jukebox: Hal Willner; Dick Raaijmakers (The Dutch electroacoustic theorist blinds Brian Morton with sonic science, from astronomy to anti-gravity); Luciano (Derek Walmsley meets the Swiss techno architect and globe-trotting DJ making dance music for introspective types); Anthony Braxton (During the 1970s, one of jazz's most avant garde figures plied his trade on one of the world's biggest record labels. Bill Meyer on Braxton's Arista years)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#299 January 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 299

On the cover of this month's issue: Rewind 2008. (The Wire's review of the year's best music, including our Top 50 Records of the Year, writers' and musicians' reflections, plus Joseph Stannard on the year in riffs, Simon Reynolds on archival glut, Nick Cain at music's outer limits and Lisa Blanning on the dancefloor. Features: Emeralds (Nick Richardson gets lost in the Kosmische-inspired drone of Ohio's analogue converts); Peverelist (Derek Walmsley on how the Bristol bass technician's sound is rooted in futurist beats and the idea of perpetual motion); Global Ear: Knoxville, Tennessee (Eric Dawson discovers and underground scene inspired by Cormac McCarthy and Sun Ra at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains); Cross Platform: Peter Liechti (The Swiss film maker reflects on the 'sound film' he made with electronics duo Voice Crack); Invisible Jukebox: Animal Collective. Epiphanies: (Hugo Wilcken explains how Joy Division brought visions of post-industrial Europe to the beaches of 80s Sydney).

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#300 February 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 300

On the cover of this month's issue: Jeff Mills (Space is still the place for the Detroit techno pioneer. Exclusive interview by Derek Walmsley). Features: Martyn (The Dutch producer on pitchshifting from drum 'n' bass to techno-influenced dubstep); Mary Halvorson (Philip Clark hears how the New York based People person is ringing the changes for jazz guitar); Hamilton Yarns (The countryside around Brighton is the inspiration for the yarnspinning pre-rockers, says Julian Cowley); Global Ear: Tehran (Lucinda Dunn and Nima Shaeyghi report on new strains of roots and fusion music in the Iranian capital); Cross Platform: Ding>>Dong (Fragmented Orchestra's pulsating electronic brain fires David Stubb's synapses at Liverpool's FACT) Invisible Jukebox: James Plotkin (The dark lord of the American underground gets to grips with The Wire's mystery record box); No-Neck Blues Band (In a rare interview, New York's leaderless collective discuss ways of summoning form from formlessness); The Primer: William S Burroughs (Jack Sargeant surveys the recorded output of the literary outlaw, from his spoken word documents to his cut-up tape and celluloid experiments; Epiphanies: British film director Chris Petit gets carried away by lines heard on the radio.

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#301 March 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 301

"On the cover of this month's issue: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (In a revealing interview, Will Oldham tells Derek Walmsley about his invented personae and the wild frontiers of alternative country). Features: Zomby (There's more to the London based dubstepper than hardcore nostalgia, argues Lisa Blanning); Menace Ruine (Edwin Pouncey hears how black metal is the inspiration for this Canadian duo's magick drones); Seymour Wright (The London based alto saxophonist tells Nick Cain how Art Blakey interferes with his dinner); Phnom Penh (Maria Bakkalapulo meets a survivor of the Pol Pot regime keeping Cambodian folk music alive); Sub Rosa Vocal Archive (Julian Cowley discovers Duchamp, Joyce and Burroughs in the Belgian label's vaults); Invisible Jukebox: Joe Morris, Joan La Barbara (The electronic vocalist details her extraordinary life in contemporary music with John Cage, Morton Feldman, Alvin Lucier and more); Andrew Cyrille (Cecil Taylor's rhythmatist of choice tells Andy Hamilton about the freedom movement in the 1960s and his more recent explorations of African roots)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#302 April 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 302

"On the cover of this month's issue: Sunn 0))) (Stephen O'Malley & Greg Anderson's drone project opens heavy metal to the realms of cosmic jazz, experimental rock and spectral music). Features: Suzanna (The Norwegian electronic chanteuse explains the allure of being a cover girl); El-B (Joe Muggs meets the prolific South London proto-dubstepper, exorcising his rites via Ghost Recordings); White (Shou Wang and Shenggy's Chinese rock superduo come with Blixa Bargeld's blessing); Global Ear: San Juan, Cross Platform: Jeff Keen, Invisible Jukebox: Adrian Utley, Sudden Infant (Actionist noise musician Joke Lanz tells David Keenan how his son's birth and his father's suicide continue to influence his visceral performance art); Magma (Keith Moline on the maxed-out virtuosity, invented language and black sci-fi influences of Christian Vander's volcanic free French rock unit. All copies of the April issue will come complete with an exclusive free CD attached to the cover, The Wire Tapper 21, the latest volume in our acclaimed series of new music compilations. As with previous volumes, The Wire Tapper 21, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman, Lisa Blanning and Andy Tait, will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider musics covered in the zine. Packaged in a heavy duty card sleeve designed by The Wire's art director Ben Weaver, the CD will be given away free with every copy of the April issue worldwide."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#303 May 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 303

"On the cover of this month's issue: Kode9 (Celebrating five years of the Hyperdub label, the philosophy don of dubstep invites Derek Walmsley to a seminar on sonic warfare and futurist dance moves). Features: Sublime Frequencies (Clive Bell reports on the tour featuring Syria's Omar Souleyman and the Saharan Group Doueh, sponsored by Alan Bishop's gonzo world music label); Belbury Poly (Ghost Box label founder Jim Jupp lifts the lid on his hauntological hobby); The Hospitals (Adam Stonehouse busts his brand of outsider rock for frat parties turned sour); Alexis O'Hara (Sense and stupidity collide in this hyperactive Canadian's 'stand up noise' act); Lee Patterson (Nick Cain meets the Manchester improvisor who turns burning nuts and fizzling aspirin into audio gold); Global Ear: Lima; Cross Platform: Richard Foreman; Invisible Jukebox: Mark Mothersbaugh; The Primer: Roland TB-303; Epiphanies: Momus on the spiritual benefits of turning down the volume."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#304 June 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 304

"On the cover of this month's issue: Ornette Coleman (Music as medicine, sound as universal grammer: Phil Freeman hears the philosophy of the free jazz legend, curator of this month's UK Meltdown Festival). Features: Bora Yoon (Robots and treated objects extend the Korean-American's vocal acrobatics); Arrington de Dionyso (The free folk visionary throws overtone singing, Fire Music and dance into the pot); Graham Lambkin (Nick Cain meets the former Shadow Ring member who's using his home as a sound palette); Global Ear: Sana'a (Robert Carroll discovers qat power is the biggest influence on Yemen's ageless desert music); Cross Platform: Equinox Festival (Raymond Salvatore Harmon tells Jack Sargeant about the magical traditions celebrated in London's festival of esoteric music and film this month); Invisible Jukebox: Andy Moor (The Ex guitarist grapples with The Wire's anarchic record selection); The Caretaker (Ex-V/Vm prankster James Kirby converts pre-war nostalgia into modern-day haunted audio, healing emotional and political memory loss); Dan Graham (Anne Hilde Neset uncovers the American artist's musical connections, from Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth to fan worship, in his Rock My Religion film); Comus (Nearly 40 years after their demonic First Utterance scourged hippiedom, the vanished British progressive folk outfit are back from the woods). Epiphanies: Erik Davis gets entangled in the sonic cobweb of György Ligeti's awe-inspiring Requiem."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#305 July 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 305

"On the cover of this month's issue: Moritz von Oswald (Basic Channel's reclusive co-founder breaks cover to tell Philip Sherburne about the dub-techno interface and his trio with Vladislav Delay and Max Loderbauer). Features: Cooley G (Joe Muggs meets the South Londoner who's rewiring vintage house as blistering funky beatdowns). Lucas Abela (This Australian body artist and noise performer loves the sound of breaking glass); Giuseppe Ielasi (Nick Cain reports on a concrčte turntablist pulling off sonic stunts on Milan's fringes); Ran Blake (Since the late 1950s, the mercurial bop pianist has continued to create the newest sound around); Ramleh (The UK cassette underground veterans fly their Broken Flag for power electronics, pagan guitars and Anne Frank); Global Ear: Berlin, Cross Platform: Jacob Kirkegaard (The Danish sound artist explores Chernobyl, the Oman desert and the inner ear in search of the inaudible), Invisible Jukebox: Ariel Pink (We place Los Angeles's lo-fi songsmith under house arrest until he can identify The Wire's mystery record selection); Pierre Henry (At home with the oldest surviving pioneer of French musique concrete, as he enters an Indian summer of renewed creativity); Epiphanies: Amanda Petrusich dips a toe in the Mississippi Delta to commune with the spirit of Americana."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#306 August 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 306

"On the cover of this month's issue: Madlib (Patrolling yesterday's universe with the Beat Konducta). Features: Diana Rogerson (Nick Richardson laps up the whiplash wit and Kali-inspired wisdom of Chrystal Belle Scrodd); Nisennenmondai (The all-female Tokyo power trio's monolithic motorik is gaining them a worldwide following); Andrea Parkins (Exploring sonority from squeezebox improv to invented 'funky machines'); Global Ear: Belize; Cross Platform: Rolf Julius (The Berlin sound artist on amplifying the inner life of stones and the music of colours); Invisible Jukebox: Sleazy Peter Christopherson (The co-founder of Throbbing Gristle and Coil member stands on the threshold of identifying The Wire's mystery record selection); Hypnagogic pop: How James Ferraro, Spencer Clark, Pocahaunted, Emeralds, et al are floating beyond noise to a dream-pop hallucination of the 1980s; The Primer: British visionary jazz; Epiphanies: Graphic novelist Warren Ellis on musical communion with a sense of place with Sigur Rós and Julian Cope."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#307 September 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 307

"On the cover of this month's issue: David Sylvian (Leaving the comfort zone). Features: Joker (Lisa Blanning is granted an audience with dubstep's clown prince of purple); Caroliner (California's most enigmatic experimental medicine showmen sell snake oil to Joseph Stannard); Global Ear: Hanoi; Cross Platform: John Wynne (Speaker-stack mountains, hidden sirens, dead languages: a few of the elements lured into this London artist's 'sound trap'); Invisible Jukebox: William Basinski; Aki Onda (Clive Bell meets the itinerant Tokyo field recordist whose Cassette Memories explore the predicament of growing up an outsider in Japan); Julie Tippetts (From spirited improvisations with husband Keith to her new digital hybrids with Martin Archer, the vocalist continually seeks surprise); Epiphanies: Novelist Matt Thorne on Viking Moses and others who perform on a wing and a prayer."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#308 October 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 308

"All copies of the October issue will come complete with an exclusive free CD stuck to the cover, The Wire Tapper 22, the latest volume in our acclaimed series of new music compilations. As with previous volumes, The Wire Tapper 22, which has been compiled by Shane Woolman, Lisa Blanning and Andy Tait, will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider musics covered in the zine. Packaged in a heavy duty card sleeve designed by The Wire's art director Ben Weaver. On the cover of this month's issue: Broadcast (Collaborating with hauntologists The Focus Group, Warp's defining post-rock duo summon an occult pop laden with psychedelia). Features: Rashied Ali (Phil Freeman pays tribute to John Coltrane's interstellar drum partner, who died in August); Sun Araw (Nick Richardson gets a fit of the cosmic giggles from the loopy psych of the Los Angeles hypnagogic popster); Global Ear: Jajouka (Lisa Blanning visits the foothills of Morocco's Rif Mountains to hear The Master Musicians Of Joujouka); Cross Platform: Hans Peter Kuhn (A dingy no-go area of Leeds gets a sound and light makeover from the Berlin based creator of sonic environments); Invisible Jukebox: Lou Reed; Dopplereffekt (Derek Walmsley takes a crash course in subatomic physics in preparation for a rare face to face encounter with the US expat techno boffins); Iancu Dumitrescu (A surreal dream set the Romanian composer on his lifelong quest to liberate sound's rude splendour from 400 years of classical tradition); The Primer: Kosmische music; Epiphanies: Director Peter Strickland on how cutting his Katalin Varga film to Nurse With Wound tracks, among others, ruined some of his favourite music."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#309 November 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 309

"On the cover of this month's issue: Julian Cope (Head Heretic). Features: OOIOO (The return of Boredoms drummer Yoshimi's female post-punk primitives); Mordant Music (Baron Mordant's new album diagnoses SyMptoMs of a peculiarly British malaise); Global Ear: Surakarta; Cross Platform: Bernie Krause (Richard Henderson tracks the former Beaver & Krause synthesist's trail from Motown session player to critter-chasing field recordist); Invisible Jukebox: Jim Jarmusch (The former Del Byzanteen turned film director who still moonlights with a rock group, Bad Rabbit, dips into The Wire's record collection); Peter Walker (The wandering raga-blues guitarist who soundtracked Tim Leary's acid tests has since absorbed flamenco into his roots repertoire); Cornelius Cardew (Philip Clark re-examines the legacy of the composer turned Maoist agit-propagandist whose graphic score Treatise questioned notions of control and freedom); Henry Threadgill (The player and composer behind Air, The Sextett, Zooid and more is still devising new strategies for his unusual ensembles); The Inner Sleeve: William Bennett on Yoko Ono's Fly; Epiphanies: The transistor radio she received for her First Holy Communion became eight year old Susan Stenger's portal to a whole new world of sound)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#310 December 2009
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 310

"On the cover of this month's issue: Sensational (Brother from another planet). Features: Ben Frost (The Iceland based Australian producer's wolf howls and machine screams grab Mark Fisher by the throat); Lubomyr Melnyk (Julian Cowley gets swept up in the torrential flow of the Ukrainian pianist/composer's continuous music); Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel Lapotin's Hypnagogic electronics view the future through a 90s hiphop lens); Global Ear: Sydney; Cross Platform: Nico Vascellari (Black Metal symbolism infiltrates the shamanic practices of this Italian musician and performance artist); Invisible Jukebox: Carlos Giffoni; The Primer: King Crimson; Epiphanies: Getting his head together in the country, Cyclobe's Stephen Thrower learns how to just say Yes."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#313 March 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 313

"On the cover of this month's issue: Caledonia Dreaming (Alasdair Roberts and the wyrd sound of Glasgow). Features: Geiom (Joe Muggs meets the Nottingham producer who is equally at ease with dubstep, Grime and UK Funky); Sebastian Lexer (The inventor of the piano+ tells Philip Clark why he has wired his ivories to a computer program); Yabby You RIP (Derek Walmsley pays tribute to a reggae artist, whose spirituals transcended the poverty of their creation); Global Ear: Houston; Cross Platform: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (The French sound artist tells Louise Gray why finches are the guitarists of choice for his London installation); Invisible Jukebox: Dylan Nyoukis (The Blood Stereo vocal improviser and Chocolate Monk founder mouths off about The Wire's mystery record selection); The Thirteenth Assembly (Howard Mandel diagnoses the state of downtown jazz with the uncompromising quartet of Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone and Tomas Fujiwara); Marina Rosenfeld (Working with teenagers, amateurs and professionals, The New York composer and sound artist gives Legti the American Idol treatment); The Moodies (These British former art students scandalized the early 1970s with their burlesque, postmodern cabaret); Epiphanies (Going to school next door to the madhouse where 19th century poet John Clare was incarcerated left its mark on writer Alan Moore)." 100 pages.

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#314 April 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 314

"All copies of the April issue will come complete with an exclusive free CD stuck to the cover, The Wire Tapper 23, the latest volume in our ongoing series of new music compilations. As with previous volumes in the series, the CD will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider musics covered in The Wire. On the cover of this month's issue: Konono No 1 (Congotronics: Konono's No 1's rumble in the jungle). Features: DJ Stingray (Derek Walmsley Skypes Detroit's Sherard Ingram about Urban Tribe and his Drexciya connections); Stefan Goldmann (The Berlin minimal techno head explains why he cut a meta-mix of Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring); The Gaslamp Killer (Discovering rap was the road to salvation for this DJ/producer primed in San Diego punk); Global Ear: Thessaloniki (How to survive in recession-hit Greece by shuffling between improv and art events); Cross Platform: Raymond Scott (Director Stan Warnow on his film about his electronic music polymath father); Invisible Jukebox: Joanna Newsom (The harpist has one on us as she dips into The Wire's mystery record box; Eleh (Matt Wuethrich journeys without a map through the deep analogue electronic drones and enigmatic variations of this willfully anonymous artist); Edgard Varčse (Ken Hollings takes a sideways view of the sonic pathfinder's progressive utopian visions of a sentient, spatial, scientific music); The Primer: Giacinto Scelsi; Epiphanies."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#315 May 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 315

"On the cover of this month's issue: Excepter. Features: Toro Y Moi (The LA chillwave auteur refracts R&B and 1980s pop through a distorting FX-haze); Lil B (Andrew Nosnitsky enters the "based freestyle" universe of the eccentric Californian rapper); Jahtari (In Leipzig, Steve Barker Tunes in to the global reverberations emanating from this digital dub crew); Global Ear: Vancouver; Cross Platform: Craig Baldwin; Invisible Jukebox: August Darnell; Daniel Carter (The quixotic New York saxophonist has blown up a soundstorm with everyone from Test to Sonic Youth, and isn't afraid to keep the funk); Seoul music (Nat Roe reports on South Korea's newly unleashed experimental improve scenes, from shamanic freeplay to disemboweled hard drives); Excepter (electronic body music and consciousness-altering improvised marathons collide in this Brooklyn sextet's discordian disco noise). Epiphanies (Mark Pilkington on out-of-body experiences courtesy of Kraftwerk, Charles Hayward and others)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#316 June 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 316

"On the cover: Felix Kubin (The Hamburg cosmonaut repurposes dada, Neue Deutsche Welle, communist anthems and more for his music, films and radiophonic plays). Features: Actress (The techno-tinged sound producer and Werk label boss discusses his R&B concrčte with Lisa Blanning); Rangers (David Keenan hops aboard for a hypnagogic tour of the suburbs with Californian guitarist Joe Knight); Demdike Stare (Folklore and tradition weigh heavily on the psyche of this Lancashire duo's electronica); Global Ear: Fukuoka; Cross Platform: Carlos Casas; Invisible Jukebox: Hudson Mohawke; Carsten Nicolai (Rob Young draws out the latent Romanticism in the Raster-Noton man's sound and visual art, and hears about his new vocal collaboration with Blixa Bargeld); Epiphanies (TV comedy writer Graham Duff takes a measure to the finaly calibrated pleasures of Wire's 154)." 92 pages.

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#317 July 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 317

"On the cover of this month's magazine: The Bug (The six degrees of Kevin Martin). Features: DJ Nate (Chicago's fancy footwork king explains the Juke House philosophy to Andrew Nosnitsky); Michael Pisaro (Philip Clark enjoys the silence and talks Motown with the Californian composer and field recordist); Global Ear: Valledupar (Gabriel Stargardter uncovers a hybrid folk culture in Colombia's secret valleys); Cross Platform: Konx-Om-Pax (Joe Muggs turns his imagination up to maximum with Glaswegian digital artist, sleeve designer and filmmaker Tom Scholefield); Invisible Jukebox: Oneohtrix Point Never (Boston's cosmic synth explorer is locked into the escape pod with The Wire's mystery record selection); Brotherhood of the Bomb (On the eve of a new exhibition, David Toop traces the link connecting a host of London's swinging '60s radicals, from John Latham to Syd Barrett); Chrome Hoof (The UK prog arkestra fuses prog, metal, electro, disco and glammed-up theatrics in a bonecrushing multimedia melée); Poland's hidden reverse (Biba Kopf touches down in Warsaw to begin a tour of Poland's thriving experimental music underground, from sonorists to trans-idiomatic improv); Epiphanies (Alex Neilson on Frank Sinatra's Only The Lonely)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#318 August 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 318

"On the cover of this month's magazine: Chris Watson (Ken Hollings meets the sound recordist and Cabaret Voltaire founder whose mic penetrates the wild places humans can't reach). Features: Terror Danjah (The East London grime footsoldier on surviving the aftershocks of a dancehall revolution); Julian Lynch (Basement psych meets hypnagogic time-travel in the Wisconsin clarinettist's DIY pop); Helena Gough (Clive Bell enters the microclimate zone with the UK electroacoustic composer); Global Ear: Yogyakarta (June Yap finds electronic grappling with the future sounds of folk in the Indonesian city); Cross Platform: The Morning Line (In Istanbul, Anne Hilde Neset enters Matthew Ritchie's pavilion of adventurous sonic art); Invisible Jukebox: Rhodri Davies (The Reductionist harper, improviser and sound artist plucks out some gems from The Wire's mystery record selection); Surgeon (How yoga, hypnosis, S&M and a buried legacy of British noise feed into the disciplined, finely balanced techno of Anthony Child); Chicks On Speed (Louise Gray reports on how the multi-tasking collective has burst out of their Berlin base to become an intercontinental guild of digital craftswomen); Cosmic disco (The interstellar pulse of late 1970s/early '80s club music signaled the first truly futurist pop. Peter Shapiro on the resurgence of grooving in zero gravity); Howard Riley (Solo, or with colleagues like Tony Oxley and Barry Guy, the free jazz pianist has kept up an uncompromising flow since the mid-1960s); Epiphanies (Owen Hatherley remembers the first time with Pulp)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#319 September 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 319

"On the cover of this month's magazine: Retro-Activity (The past into the present: A time-travelling survey of music now.) In a series of themed essays, Wire writers examine the various ways that the music of the past resonates through the music of the here and now, from analogue gear fetishism to curator-and DJ-led revisions of world-historical musical scenes and movements. Features: LA Vampires (Amanda Brown's post-Pocahaunted project comes slathered in sleazy dub); Odd Future (The cantankerous teens are grafting a mutant third limb on LA's hiphop scene); Cindytalk (Lisa Blanning listens to the crackling of the former 4AD singer and transgender warrior's soul); Global Ear: Boise (Dustin Verburg unveils a testy experimental music festival blazing through Idaho's City of Trees); Cross Platform: Aura Satz (The London based sound artist sculpts a macabre, mechanical art of memory from phonographic objects); Invisible Jukebox: Mordant Music; Graham Simpson (Exclusive interview with the original Roxy Music bassist, who fell out of history after discovering Sufism and psychedelics); Paul Burwell (Three years after his death, Julian Cowley pays tribute to the British percussionist, inventor and Bow Gamelan Ensemble founder's liberating spirit); Epiphanies: (Tim Lawrence on Arthur Russell's avant disco)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#320 October 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 320

"All copies of the October issue will come complete with an exclusive free CD stuck to the cover, The Wire Tapper 24, the latest volume in our ongoing series of new music compilations. As with previous volumes in the series, the CD will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider musics covered in The Wire. Packaged in a heavy duty card sleeve designed by The Wire's art director Ben Weaver. On the cover of this month's magazine: Noise In The Ether (Explorations in the art of radio transmission). Features: Anne-James Chaton (The French sound poet folds everyday ephemera into work with Andy Moor and alva noto); entr'acte (Derek Walmsley celebrates the London label's vacuum packed, pristine improv and electronic catalogue); Global Ear: Belém (Andy Cumming on the shanty-town sound of Tecnobrega coming from this Brazilian outpost); Cross Platform: Matt Stokes (Musical subcultures and folk customs come under the microscope in this London artist's elaborate video reconstructions); Invisible Jukebox: Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOUSE and current Stooges bassist tangles with The Wire's mystery record selection); Catherine Christer Hennix (The Swedish electronic composer's shapeshifting trance music is a fusion of deep mathematics and alternative tuning systems); Los Angeles Free Music Society (The legendary collective galvanized 1970s LA with anarchic improv, noise and Beefheart-style free rock, and now they're doing it again); Epiphanies (Russell Mills on the art of collage with Jack Jackson and Kurt Schwitters)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#321 November 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 321

"On the cover of this month's magazine: Drexciya (The Otolith Group decode the techno enigma, plus the Detroit legends on record). Features: Bjřrn Torske (The Norwegian's spacious house is centrally-heated by warm vintage disco sounds); Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer (The German policeman and his wife talk transgressive art and outsider noise with Daniel Spicer); Global Ear: Beirut (At Lebanon's Irtijal festival, Seth Ayyaz hears local musicians transcending Arabic music clichés); Invisible Jukebox: John Tilbury; Cross Platform (Turner Prize nominess The Otolith Group explain the motives behind their new Drexciya-inspired film, Hydra Decapita; The Primer (A user's guide to the music and mythos of Drexciya, including their myriad solo projects); Wim Mertens (Clive Bell enjoys a continental breakfast with the prolific, polymathic Belgian composer whose work celebrates repetition and the voice); Jennifer Walshe (Nothing is real, everything is permitted, says the Irish composer and sonic artist, from within a maze of aliases and false identities); Epiphanies: Brian Dillion."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#322 December 2010
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 322

"On the cover of this month's issue: Shackleton (The Skull Disco co-founder has survived his Soundboy's Suicide Note and moved to Berlin to craft his apocalyptic beat visions). Features: Jon Mueller (Inspired by the Shakers, the Milwaukee percussionist makes a virtue of simplicity); Shabazz Palaces (Lisa Blanning talks to the artist formerly known as Butterfly, of Digable Planets, about his new project); Vomir (Romain Perrot builds Harsh Noise Walls to protect himself from worldly temptations); Global Ear: Budapest & Pecs (Nathan Budzinski observes a festival's attempts to forge links with Hungary's outsider communities); Cross Platform: Charlie Morrow (The chemist turned musician and sound artist's large-scale city works address the damage mankind has done to the planet); Invisible Jukebox: William Bennett (The Whitehouse founder comes under fire from The Wire's mystery record selection); Name June Paik (On the eve of a major retrospective in Liverpool, Brian Morton draws on his unpublished interviews to portray the Korean video/TV artist as dada composer); Scientist (The expat Jamaican dub master distills four decades of sonic science into the data packets he chops into his dubstep collaborations); Epiphanies (John Szwed discovers a different kind of harmolodics at an Ornette Coleman week in Hartford, Connecticut)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#323 January 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 323

"Rewind 2010: Our massive annual survey of the past 12 months in underground music, including our Top 50 Records of The Year, plus the top records in each genre, all voted for by our crack squad of contributors, who also give us their personal highs and lows of 2010. We also survey the year's trends and developments. Plus, a selection of high-polling musicians deliver their verdicts on the year. Features: Giuseppe Ielasi (The Italian composer's work straddles a vast array of practices, from turntable manipulation to sampladelic stunts); Peter Christopherson (Stephen Thrower pays tribute to the Throbbing Gristle and Coil founder who died in November 2010); Lichens (Marc Masters hears about sonic evolution and analogue synthesis from Brooklyn's Robert Lowe); Pat Maherr (Expressway Yo-Yo Dieting, Indignant Senility: just two of the sonic pirate's many aliases); Global Ear: Leeds (Fluxus anarchy and perpetual reinvention hallmark the North English city's avant fringes); Cross Platform: Toshiya Tsunoda (Do we change a place by listening to it, asks the Japanese sound artist whose mics seek out the world's hidden resonance); Invisible Jukebox: Scanner (The urban flaneur and multitasking sound artist tunes in to The Wire's mystery record selection); Electronic Voice Phenomena (Ken Hollings meets the ghostbusters CM von Hausswolff and Michael Esposito, communing with dead voices via Edison's wax cylinder technology); Epiphanies: Marcus Boon."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#324 February 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 324

"On the cover of this month's issue: Deerhoof (Now in their 16th year, the mercurial rockers have shapeshifted into a disciplined global mobile unit). Features: Captain Beefheart (Strictly personal tributes, including a comic strip by Savage Pencil, a poem by Byron Coley and some insider Magic Band knowledge from Gary Lucas); Vanessa Rossetto (The Texas based artist tells Nick Cain about composing and improvising with quotidian sounds); Tri-Angle Records (Derek Walmsley bags a rare interview with the man behind the London spectral pop label); Global Ear: Stockholm (The Swedish capital's new Audiorama is the latest in a long line of electronic live spaces); Invisible Jukebox: Hype Williams (Inga Copeland and Dean Blunt stop being polite and 'get reel' with The Wire's mystery record selection); Matthew Shipp (How the broadminded New York pianist peeled away from the jazz fleet to sail in the open waters of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series); Epiphanies: Salomé Voegelin kneels in the presence of Morton Feldman's contemplative masterpiece Rothko Chapel."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#325 March 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 325

"On the cover of this month's issue: Theo Parrish (The sound-sculpting Detroit DJ ties knots in the timelines of black music history with his 12" re-edits and freefloating rhythms). Features: Mizz Beats (The East London producer and beatmaker signals the return of geek chic); Natalie Beridze (Tbilisi's silicon songsmith makes electronic songs of tears and forgetting); Cross Platform: Lundahl & Seitl (The Swedish art duo's performances manipulate the audience's perceptions); Global Ear: Burkina Faso (Saxophonist and composer Trevor Watts travels to Bobo and Fada with his multinational 11 Songs project); Invisible Jukebox: Michel Chion (The French electronic composer and writer enters the acousmatic chamber with The Wire's mystery record selection); Alternative Cambridge (Matthew Ingram takes a punt on the university town's freaky underground collective: Pete Um, The Dooze, Nochexxx and The Man From Uranus); David Bedford (From Kevin Ayers and Mike Oldfield to The Wreck Of The Titanic, the British composer's cosmic orchestrations continue to shine); Epiphanies (Nina Power is rescued from a rural teenage wasteland by Fugazi's Red Medicine)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#326 April 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 326

"All copies of the April issue will come complete with an exclusive free CD stuck to the cover, The Wire Tapper 25, the latest volume in our ongoing series of new music compilations. As with previous volumes in the series, the CD will contain a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from across the spectrum of the kind of underground/outsider musics covered in The Wire. Packaged in a heavy duty card sleeve designed by The Wire's art director Ben Weaver, the CD will be given away free with every copy of the April issue worldwide. On the cover of this month's issue: Richard Skelton (As A Broken Consort, Riftmusic and others, the UK sound artisan enters the wild places to create a ritual music of mourning and rebirth). Features: Funkystepz (The London trio are spreading their dancefloor delirium across the capital); Jenny Hval (The Norwegian songwriter/novelist sings her lungs and liver out on her visceral new album); Olivia Block (Field recordings inserted into real-time improv keeps the element of surprise); Global Ear: Helsinki (New venues like Ptarmigan encourage disorderly musical conduct in Finland's capital); Cross Platform: Charlie Nothing (Byron Coley on a forgotten American outsider artist whose work stretchted from psychedelic saxophone to inventing metallic Dingulators); Invisible Jukebox: Green Gartside (The Scritti Politti frontman hears some songs to remember in The Wire's mystery record selection); Peter Evans (Philip Clark meets the New York trumpeter whose deconstructions of historic jazz are forging a new, dynamic version of the music's future); Once Upon A Time In... Harlem (Andy Battaglia revisits the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where the ghosts of Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening and Milton Babbitt linger); Epiphanies: Little Annie Bandez penetrates the secret heart of New York via the magic tones of Mile's Kind Of Blue."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#327 May 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 327

"On the cover: Amanda and Britt Brown, the LA couple behind Not Not Fun, 100% Silk, LA Vampires and more. Plus: Micachu & The Shapes (London maverick Mica Levi sharpens her chopper to take on the London Sinfonietta); Ekoplekz (Mark Fisher talks blasted beats, vintage sci-fi and gutterbreaks with the Bristolian analogue fetishist); Global Ear: Sao Paulo (Russ Slater observes state incursions and inward migration affecting Brazilian pop and leftfield music); Cross Platform: Herbert Distel (The Swiss artist creates transports of delight via radio works, floating eggs and more); Invisible Jukebox: Daniel Miller (The Mute Records founder settles into a warm leatherette to check out The Wire's mystery record selection); New rap bratz (Andrew Nosnitysky hails the resurgence of anarchic hiphop, headed by Odd Future, Lil B, Clams Casino, NRK, Pyramid Vritra and more); Mellow soul (David Toop tastes sugar and poison in the smouldering soul of Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone, The Chi-Lites, Teddy Pendergrass and others); Epiphanies: UbuWeb's Kenneth Goldsmith on how the internet intensifies the record collector's thrill of the chase."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#328 June 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 328

"On the cover: Battles (The poster boys for the ATP generation tell Daniel Spicer about life after Tyondai Braxton, the prog-pop equation, and working with Gary Numan). Plus: Matana Roberts (The saxophonist traverses American history by communing with her black ancestors); DVA (Joe Muggs meets DJ/producer Scratcha/Soule Power, fritzing the edges of London's pirate scene); Invisible Jukebox: Demdike Stare (Hexing the Mancunian electronic duo with The Wire's mystery record selection); Sea Shanties (Clive Bell dons his sou'wester and gets press-ganged into investigating the unlikely resurgence of nautical folk songs in Britain); Retromania (Simon Reynolds reflects on how the digital revolution has led to a tail-chasing obsession with the past, and a climate of excess, in the music of our time); Collateral Damage (Chris Cutler presents the artist's case against indiscriminate filesharing); Global Ear: Hong Kong (Andy Hamilton & James Steintrager find expats and locals fighting musical complacency in the 'Asian World City'); Cross Platform: Caroline Bergvall (The London text-sound artist's Middling English explores linguistic slippage); Epiphanies: Paul Hegarty traces an ecstatic continuum between two My Bloody Valentine gigs 18 years apart."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#329 July 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 329

"On the cover: Roy Harper (Still in the crease in his 70th year, English music's old cricketer looks back over five decades of singing into the storm). Features: Errorsmith (The Berlin instrument designer plays ghost in the machine with his beat programming); Nils Řkland (The Norwegian Hardanger fiddler and improviser talks Ole Bull with Julian Cowley); Collateral Damage (David Keenan makes the case for music beginning at home); Global Ear: Beijing; Cross Platform: Adolf Wölfli (Brian Morton analyses the musical dimensions of the Swiss outsider's dense, troubled artwork); Invisible Jukebox: People Like Us (Vicki Bennett, playful sound deconstructionist, welcome abroad The Wire's mystery record selection); John Wall (How the London sampling composer is raising his game with improv input and truculent avant garde poetry); John Maus (Joseph Stannard meets the Minnesota pop savant and punk theorizer who's fracking the last resources out of 1980s electro synth sounds); Epiphanies (Novelist Luke Williams enters the anechoic chamber with memories of John Cage)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#330 August 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 330

"Attached to the front cover of every copy: The Wire Tapper CD, the latest in our ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. On the cover: Zomby (A rare in-person interview with UK Bass's mystery man who has dedicated himself to redefining the nation's club music). Features: Global Ear: Kiev (DakhaBrahka's 'ethno-chaos' reconnects Ukrainian music to its pagan roots); Cross Platform: Seb Patane (The Italian artist stays faithful to the line despite irruptions of frontier-pushing music); Collateral Damage (Bob Ostertag comes to terms with the 'professional suicide' of giving music away for free); Luo Chao Yun (The Taiwanese pipa virtuoso is plucking her way to the heart of the UK Improv community); Forest Swords (Mark Fisher hears post-punk echoes in the new Mersey home recordings of Matt Barnes); Invisible Jukebox: Jan Anderzén (The Finnish frontman of Kemialliset Ystävät and Tomutonttu gnomes in on The Wire's mystery record selection); Daphne Oram (From founding the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to designing new instruments for a new age, the British composer/inventor was a true pioneer); The Primer: Jim O'Rourke (A guide to the multi-talents of the Chicago born guitarist/improviser/producer, who prodigious output covers electronic drones, tapes music, uneasy pop, soundtracks and more); Epiphanies."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#331 September 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 331

"On the cover: My Cat Is An Alien (Ken Hollings visits the Italian duo's Alien Studios in Milan to hear how they harness the music of the spheres with rayguns and cosmic drones); Collateral Damage (Not Not Fun's Amanda Brown on the damaging effects of Filesharing on an underground culture already hemorrhaging artists to the mainstream); Global Ear: Cork (Daniel Spicer witnesses a miraculous sound art boom in the midst of Ireland's bust economy); Cross Platform: Jana Winderen (Underwater recordings play a part in understanding Earth's changing climate, says this Norwegian artist); Herb Diamante (From Cumbria to Seattle, the itinerant Brit crooner brings a touch of Vegas schmaltz to the global underground); Andy Stott (Robin Howells meets the Mancunian producer who's dragging techno through a hedge backwards); Invisible Jukebox: Alan Howarth (The Hollywood composer and sound designer struggles for total recall with The Wire's mystery record selection); Prurient (Power electronic ideologue Dominick Fernow has written Noise's first breakup album -- with Mom's help); Fela Kuti in London (The untold story of the Nigerian bandleader's early London years, soaking up the city's jazz, R&B and rock 'n' roll subcultures); Epiphanies: Hua Hsu remembers the mundane writing task that got him through 11 September 2001 ten years ago)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#332 October 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 332

"On the cover: Christian Marclay (David Toop meets the Swiss-American champion of the Venice Biennale to discuss DJing, video editing, downtown adventures, and radical scores). Features: Collateral Damage (Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner celebrates social networking for pleasure and profit); Cross Platform: Ed Atkins (The British artist generates emotional and perceptual discomfort in his out of synch films); Global Ear: Portmore (Sun Araw's Cameron Stallones on a Jamaican recording trip with dub legends The Congos); Shabaka Hutchings (The versatile London reedsman connects the dots between Cecil Taylor and Schoenberg); Raime (Mark Fisher talks dystopian dubstep and the 1980s interzone with the Berkshire electronic duo); Invisible Jukebox: Chris & Cosey (The former TG stalwarts and techno duo oscillate wildly to The Wire's mystery record selection); Hieroglyphic Being (Feeding off Sun Ra's cosmic emanations and magic numbers, Chicago's Jamal Moss infuses Afro-futurist house with Nubian soul); Bill Orcutt (After leaving foul-mouthed hardcore group Harry Pussy, the American guitarist reinvented himself as a blues mangler par excellence); The Primer: Militant Tuning (A field guide to the war on equal temperament, from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier to La Monte Young's Well-Tuned Piano); Epiphanies: Performance artist Anat Ben-David praises the transformative experience of improvisation."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#334 December 2011
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 334

"On the cover: Manuel Göttsching (the Ash Ra Tempel guitarist reveals how he made electronic masterpiece E2-E4, influencing 30 years of repetitive house and track rock). Features: Roger Reynolds (American New Music's answer to Xenakis is extending the power of percussion on Sanctuary); Andre Vida (Clive Bell meets a sax improviser who's worked with everyone from Anthony Braxton to Jamie Lidell); Invisible Jukebox: Spinn & Rashad (Chicago's Juke duo perform some fancy Footwork around The Wire's mystery record selection); Grouper (For Liz Harris, escaping a childhood sect unlocked a range of morbid confrontations with the void, from tape works to Ambient song); Sandwell District (Robin Howells keeps the peace between the brutalist international techno trio who have created a label hub for fetishistic electronica); The Primer: Turkish psychedelia (A user's guide to the byzantine East-West acid folk and rock fusions of Anadlou psych); Collateral Damage (Sharing out-of-print records online confounds received narratives of musical history, argues Mutant Sounds' Eric Lumbleau); Global Ear: Belfast (Peter Rosser observes Northern Ireland's ascension as a world capital of sound art); Cross Platform: Nathalie Djurberg (The Swedish artist's creepy video animations are enhanced by the sonic machinations of collaborator Hans Berg); Epiphanies: Man Booker-nominated novelist Esi Edugyan praises the voice of Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#335 January 2012
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 335

"On the cover: Rewind 2011. Our massive annual survey of the last 12 months of underground/outsider music activity, including the 50 records of the year, 50 archive releases of the year and specialist genre charts covering all bases from Avant Rock to Outer Limits. Plus our crack team of critics and contributors, as well as some of 2011's most active and high-flying musicians, give us their takes on the highs and lows of the cultural year. Features: Kouhei Matsunaga (Clive Bell meets the German born conceptual composer who treats scores as standalone artworks); Collateral Damage: Claudia Molitor (Philip Clark meets the German born conceptual composer who treats scores as standalone artworks); Gonjasufi (Dan Barrow enjoys a sun salutation and enters the wormhole with Warp's conscious beatmaker); Invisible Jukebox: Michael Chapman (The veteran folk guitarist and improviser becomes a fully qualified survivor of The Wire's mystery record selection); Spencer Clark/James Ferraro (The ex-Skaters talk about their separate Fourth World and Far Side Virtual second lives). Global Ear: Brisbane (Daniel Spencer gatecrashes the house hows, pub gigs and bedroom blowouts of Queensland's capital city); Epiphanies (Adam Harper on the transformative potential of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise graphic score)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#336 February 2012
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 336

"On the cover: Lil B (Lisa Blanning travels to San Francisco for an audience with the Based God, who's subverting hiphop with complex notions of sexuality and race). Features: Keith Fullerton Whitman (Derek Walmsley hears tales of modular madness, computer geniuses and pinball wizardry from the New England composer/archivist); ICES Festival (In 1971, maverick impresario Harvey Matusow staged a carnival of experimental music and art in London that's never been surpassed); Global Ear: Delhi - Jaipur; Cross Platform: Ian Helliwell (The Brighton boffin celebrates electronica's hobbyist years in a new documentary); Los Llamarada (Byron Coley mourns the demise of a heroic, Mexican avant rock outfit, victims of social decline); Ital (Part-time Sex Worker Daniel Martin-McCormick channels YouTube effluent into the rickety House structures of his latest project); Invisible Jukebox: Charles Hayward (The avantist drummer of This Heat, Massacre, About Group and more drops a beat with The Wire's mystery record selection); Epiphanies (A Barbara Hepworth sculpture connects the dots between meditation and folk protest for Linder)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#337 March 2012
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 337

"On the cover: Earth (Joseph Stannard finds out why the Seattle slow-rockers are away with the fairy folk and investigating the Old, Weird Albion); :zoviet*france (Phil England hears audio fog on the Tyne emanating from the veteran post-industrial duo's danceworks); Emptyset (The Bristol based Multiverse duo make shattered techno out of ruined buildings); Global Ear: Ethiopia (Terrie Ex & Andy Moor chronicle The Ex's pathfinding tours of the Horn of Africa, building relationships with local musicians and audiences); Cross Platform: Haroon Mirza (The UK based artist's latest installations are random acoustic sculptures forming resonant environments); Invisible Jukebox: Ghost Box (Belbury Poly's Jim Jupp and The Focus Group's Julian House are spooked by The Wire's uncanny record selection); Julia Holter (The Californian lo-fi goddess moulds Cageian aesthetics and classical mythology into her DIY sound forge); The Primer: King Tubby (A guide to Osbourne Ruddock's studio mutations and earth-shaking roots riddims, which transformed Jamaican music and beyond)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#338 April 2012
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 338

"The Wire Tapper 28, the latest volume in our ongoing and exclusive series of groundbreaking (no, really, we mean it) alt.music CD comps, will be attached to the cover of every copy of the April issue. Plus, inside the issue: Sun Araw (Cameron Stallones takes a trip through time, space and musical perception in his recent collaboration with The Congos); Hanna Tuulikki (Clive Bell hears how the Glasgow based vocalist and artist's new avant folk group, Two Wings, is taking flight); Nate Wooley (The trumpet player tells Dan Warburton about life after minimalism, and exploring drones and phonetics); Invisible Jukebox: Tom Moulton (The father of remixing and inventor of the 12" avoids a breakdown with The Wire's mystery record box); Conlon Nancarrow (Philip Clark revisits the work of the reclusive American composer and finds a life as uncompromising as his hyper-complex scores for player piano); Charles Gayle (Years spent homeless on the streets of New York have inspired the free jazz veteran's visionary new music and compelling stage persona); "We are all David Toop now" (The writer and musician's vision of an interconnected musical landscape is now accessible for all. Simon Reynolds wonders if the future should be less oceanic); Global Ear: Milan: Cross Platform: Elizabeth Price (The Talulah Gosh founder draws on the melodramatic power of pop for her video art)."

Artist:	WIRE, THE
Title:	#339 May 2012
Label:	THE WIRE (UK)
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	WIRE 339

"On the cover: AtomTM (From Seńor Coconut to 19th century Romantic, Uwe Schmidt's multiple personae spring from a lifelong passion for electronic simulacra, says Dan Barrow). Features: Scott Walker (Ian Penman casts aside received rockist wisdom and asks if the singer's lost years of MOR covers and TV shows were, in fact, his most musically enchanting.); The great unlearning (What happened when Philip Clark left his compositional comfort zone and ventured into Eddie Prévost's improvisation workshop?); Invisible Jukebox: Mary Halvorson; The Primer: Sound poetry; Cross Platform: Benedict Drew; Laurel Halo (Adam Harper gets enjoyably lost in the electronic musician's free-roaming futurescapes); Sean McCann (David Keenan hears Renaissance choirs, American minimalism and folk in the US composer's work)."

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